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Have you heard what we are doing— 
We One Hundred? 

A worthy cause we represent 

And all the labor that is spent, 

Means: we are building a new church; that is, 
We mean to aid ! 



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We're one hundred women busy- 
Earning money! 

That's the reason we are hustling 

And are doing so much bustling. 

And when you read these lines you'll learn ; 
That of work we're not afraid! 





We are cooking and we're baking and we're sewing - 

Yes ; we're sewing ! 
And the fact is we're so busy 
That 'twill almost make you dizzy 
Just to know the many things that 

We're making now to sell ! 



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If in any branch domestic you may fail- 
And you may fail! 

You w^ill find that all your trouble 

Flies away light as a bubble 

If you merely ask assistance of the 

Ones who do things well ! 





Is your sewing far behind ? Never mind— 

Never mind ! 
There^s an adept orders taking, 
Who will show her skill in making 
Any product of the needle, plain or fancy 

Just the same, 



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As she keeps us all a-going— 
Yes ; a-going ! 
Laying out our work so neatly 
And she does it so completely 
That there certainly is magic just in 
Mrs. Henning's name ! 





Does your bodice need a collar- 
Fancy collar? 

Dainty stock or lawn turnover? 

You will find yourself in clover 

When you see the lovely things made by 

Mrs. Neel and Mrs. D. McClure. 



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There are handkerchiefs so pretty— 
Yes ; so pretty ! 

So cobwebby that the spider 

May be sorry 'tis denied her 

Just to work along these lines, for 

Miss Taylor, I am sure, 





May compete with her in drawn-work— 
Any drawn- work ! 

Handkerchiefs or Hnen covers. 

Then all you who may be lovers 

Of these things send now your order, 

Be it large or be it small. 



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And while of handkerchiefs weVe telling— 

Handkerchiefs ! 
Laundry bags are made to hold them, 
Such creations to enfold them. 
By Miss Smrcek. Tub awaits them ! You 

Would never dream at all ! 





Does your pretty gown for evening 

Need a girdle? 
One that gives a dainty touch 
That is distinctive, and just such 
As will make the perfect finish to your 
Costume you require. 



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You will draw the line in favor- 
Yes ; in favor, 
Of a belt of beads artistic 
Wrought in a design quite mystic, 
We know that Mrs. Hynson makes 
The girdle you desire ! 




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Pillows? Bolsters? need new cases— 

Slips or cases ? 
You may name them what you choose to— 
Just whatever you are used to— 
Pillow slips or pillow cases, 

Just whatever pillows wear. 



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But in this case we ask attention— 

Your attention ! 
To the fact, deft fingers flying 
In and out the needle plying 
Fashion work so daintily wrought, from 

Mrs. Burns you'll want a pair. 




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And we're sewing for the wee ones— 

Yes ; the Wee Ones ! 
The little people too are sharing 
In the many things for wearing 
After La Mode's way, in smartest frocks 
And other pretty things. 



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And since your int'rest is aroused— 
Has been aroused ! 

Well ; we fancy you'd be knowing 

Who is at this branch of sewing. 

Why of course it's Mrs. Forbes, (perhaps you've 
Known it) and this brings 




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Us now to tell of some other things as well- 
Such as skirts ! 
Petticoats so dainty, neat, 
That your wardrobe's incomplete 
If Mrs. McAnulty does not you with 
These supply. 



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And there are so many sewing — 
Yes, so many ! 

That we can't enumerate 

All the very up-to-date 

Things for wearing that are making 
If we try. 




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But if it happen you need aprons- 
Nice new aprons ! 

Yes; great big ones for the kitchen 

In a style made most bewitchin' 

Miss Black's mistress in the art, as 

We all know, of making these. 



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Merely mentioning the kitchen — 

La Cuisine ! 
Suddenly does set one thinking. 
Causing a peculiar sinking 
At the stomach, which is hunger, 

So we'll opportunely seize 




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Upon this chance your hunger whetting— 

And a-betting ! 
For you see it*s our intention 
To proceed to try to mention 
Many things in the department culinary, 

If not all, 



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Now in some process of making— 
Perhaps baking ! 

And since all are most nutritious 

And are all alike delicious, 

There certainly is danger other markets 
We'll forestall ! 




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So if you eat bread and can't bake it— 

Cannot ? Will not ! 
There is bread light as a feather 
And it matters not the weather, 
White bread made by Mrs. Nebo, who 
You'll find in this excels ! 



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And some not so light — in color — 

Merely color ! 
Brown bread, sweet with nutty flavor, 
Which you'll all agree does savor 
Of good breakfasts. Mrs. Mortimer 

Does bake it, as this tells. 




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And there^s pie too now in baking— 

Apple pie ! 
Or any kind you ask for 
You will find not thought a task for 
Mrs. M. McClure to bake, whose pies 

Are dainties rare ! 



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And macaroons so crispy- 
Macaroons ! 
A connoisseur in dainties if you please, 
Miss Sarah Means is who makes these. 
As shown at every festival we hold. 
Bazaar or fair ! 




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Or if you hunger for some cake and never bake- 

Well, never bake ! 
For Mrs. R. McCaslin bakes some, 
Mrs. Charles too, and so toothsome 
Will you find these that you'll surely 

Hunger often, yes indeed ! 



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There are lots of other good things— 

Lots of others ! 
Jellies, salads and confections. 
Recipes too, and directions 
How to make and how to bake 

Many things you often need ! 




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Do you want to make a salad— 
Good corn salad? 
If you let Miss M. McClure know 
You will find she'll quickly show 
Just how to make the best you've eaten, 
You'll agree ! 



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Also in this line of specials— 

Special good things ! 

Potato salad appetizing, 

Why it's not at all surprising 

That to make it Mrs. Weaverling's 

Kept busier than the bee ! 




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And there's jelly of the finest- 
Finest jelly ! 
Jelly that does take the biscuit— 
Well, we thought we might just risk it- 
Mrs. Seward Hays does make it and 

We know you'll find it rare. 



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And of course we all eat butter- 
But Lemon Butter! 
That we eat when we can get it 
And for not one moment let it 
Be mistaken that you get it, 

Just somewhere ! 




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So we'll tell you who does make it— 
Who does make it? 

Mrs. C. L. Taylor is it 

Makes this butter so exquisite ! 

Delicacy, tart and wholesome. Nothing else 
You'll ever eat ! 



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That is in butters! There are beans awaiting - 

Baked beans ! 
Not the kind you often read of 
But the kind you want to eat of, 
Baked by Mrs. Harry Baker, all in 

Little jars complete ! 




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Perhaps you have a weakness for a certain kind of pie- 

Pumpkin pie ! 
Well, there's pie that you will relish 
Pumpkin pie fit to embellish 
Table of the epicure ! The pie that's known in 

History and rhyme ! 



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We would have you bear in mind— pumpkin pie ! 

Of the kind 
That is made by Mrs. Huff 
You can never get enough 
So be sure to have her bake some while 

It still is pumpkin time ! 




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And another skilled in pastries— 

Mrs-. Lemmer. 
She has not the slightest notion 
What a very great commotion 
Such good pies she bakes are making. For all 

Kind is she renowned ! 



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And some neither cook nor bake nor sew- 

Yet, they're busy ! 
Yes ; they're busy money saving 
And are fashion's order waiving 
And will wear old hats and bonnets 
All year round ! 




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There are yet things realistic— 
And artistic. 

But these are not to eat or wear 

For of that youVe had your share ! 

So we'll peep into the studio of 

One or two or three. 



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There is work on canvas showing 

Real talent. 
A portrait or a decorative 
Scheme in oils alike are native 
To Mrs. H. L. Baker's hand. You will 

Go at once and see ! 




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When you give a little dinner and need cards- 
Dinner cards ! 
Mrs. J. H. Williams' fingers 
Create a dainty gem that lingers 
Long in fancy, but you'll find a 

Finished artist here as well, 



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Who does anything in colors- 
Water colors ! 
Everything, the pretty maiden. 
Or the branch with blossom laden. 
Bits of sea, or sky, or land. All their 
Charming story tell ! 




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Do you have a special fondness for 

Ceramics ? 
A dainty piece for cabinet 
Or a handsome dinner set, 
Anything in china painting that's artistic 

And quite rare ? 



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You will find that in this branch— 

Branch of the fine arts ! 
Mrs. Risher's work is such 
One cannot of it say too much 
For with any royal work does it 

Most favorably compare ! 




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And there's yet another artist— 

Decorative ! 
Not in painting but in growing 
Any lovely flower a-blowing, 
Blooming, Blossoming in Spring 

Or good old Summertime ! 



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Then if you'd like the choicest, growing - 
Blooming, blowing ! 

For the cares of one to lighten, 

For what like flowers can brighten ? 

Mrs. Peterson's flower garden yields the 
Sweetest in this clime ! 




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And a propos of flowers— 

There are sunflowers ! 

Bright and radiantly gleaming, 

In a blaze of glory beaming, 

By Miss Bryson were they gathered, in a 
Great big bunch of ten ! 



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Ten of the One Hundred Workers— 

Never shirkers ! 
You'll find nothing more unique 
Than the Sunflower Social, seek 
Where you will. And we hope the 

Sunflowers entertain again ! 




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And there are some other people— 

Social people 
With such a feast did us surprise 
Musical and otherwise ! 
Mrs. Duncan and her aids 

We entreat shall feast us more! 



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Strange how does one's mind revert to- 

And convert too— 
Just the slightest chance we meet 
To talk of something good to eat, 
But you see there are still others who do 
Keep a bakery store ! 




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Everything that's baked they're baking- 
Baked of flour ! 

Gingerbread, and doughnuts savory, 

Cake, and custard pie so flavory; 

Mrs. Blazier and nine others all these 
Good things bake for you. 



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Now we hope that you'll find something- 

To your taste ! 
But your appetite not diminish 
Not until these rhymes we finish, 
For there yet remain some people who are 

Interested too ! 




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Mrs. Means and Mrs. Norris, Miss Andress 

And Mrs. Young, 
Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Eight and Mrs. Gillen, 
It may be these are not willin^ 
We should know just what they're doing, but 

We very plainly see 



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Their left hand knows not of the right— 
Nor what it does ! 

And it's not the very oddest. 

Miss Hirth and more are just as modest ! 

Mesdames Ebberts, Ward and West, 
McCreery, Kennedy. 




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There are four-and-twenty others— 

More or less ! 
Who are equally concerned 
And though we've tried we haven't learned 
What they are doing either, but who some are 

We'll try to tell. 



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Mesdames Rhodes, Orr, Hood, Menke, 

Rowse, 
Wolfe and Barnes and Wisener, 
Jacobs, Morton, Hoover, Power, 
Mrs. Francis and some more ! There are so 

Many doing well ! 




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Miss Robinson and Mrs. Brockie, 

Mrs. Davis, 
Mrs. Wiggins, Mrs. Omans, Mrs. Payne, 
Mrs. Kerruish and may be others, but it's plain, 
Though names may come and names may go 

We can't go on forever ! 



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Altogether we're a unit that is power - 
We One Hundred, 

If energies we concentrate. 

And this labor consecrate, 

As being noble work, as well as 
Work that's clever. 




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But we hope since we all know— 

Just what we're doing! 
We'll be so inclined to labor 
That we'll not permit our neighbor 
To excel us earning money for this purpose 
Good and true. 



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And the sum of all this rhyming— 
We've been timing, 

Is : we're simply interchanging 

Household duties, and arranging 

Daily cares, material things, that best results 
For us ensue. 




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Wi^t (§m ^m^hrth. 

Mrs. J. B. Henning, Chairman. 
AIDS. 
Mrs. Jesse H. Williams. Mrs. William Burns. 

" John H. Gillen. Miss Mary Hirth. 

" George P. Weaverling. Mrs. J. F. Hutson. 
" Harry L. Baker. " Edwin B. Lyon. 

Miss Cora B. Strickler. 

Mrs. Charles W. Taylor, Chairman. 
Mrs. Daniel R. McClure. Miss Olive Espy. 

Miss Lulu Black. Mrs. W. S. B. Hays. 

Mrs. J. B. Neel. " Arthur E. Orr. 

" J. C. Rhodes. " August Miller. 

Miss Jeanetta M. Eaton. 

Mrs. W. S. Hood, Chairman. 

Mrs. Robert C. McCaslin. Mrs. Thomas R. Davis. 

" E. A. Means. " James Peterson. 

" Elizabeth McCreery. " Margaret Todd. 

" M. L. McClure. " William Mortimer. 

Mrs. W. C. Miller. 

Mrs. Elma Lemmer, Chairman. 
Mrs. J. Clyde Miller. Mrs. William F. Nebo. 

'♦ John Wolfe. " Ashel H. Hight. 

Miss Robinson. " H. F. Power. 

Mrs. O. J. Hoover. " William Menk. 

A Friend. 

Mrs. James B. Ward, Chairman. 
Mrs. Nathan D. Hynson. Mrs. Peter Allen. 

Miss Mattie D. McClure. " E. D. Omans. 

Mrs. W. P. Patten. " R. Patterson. 

" John Forbes. " J. M. Norris. 

Miss Patterson. 





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Duncan, Chairman. 


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Miss Darlie Shoemaker, 


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H. Morton. 


" Katherine Beazel. 


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S. Wales. 


" Alberta Morton. 


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D, Charles. 


" Mame Shoemaker, 



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Mrs. George W. McCleery. 

Miss Mary Taylor, Chairman. 

Mrs. James F. Jamison. Miss Ella C. Andress. 

" Reid Kennedy. " M. A. Burns. 

" G. E. Wisener. Mrs. E. F. Rowse. 

" George Jacobs. " M, H. West. 

Misses Kendall and Hammil. 

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Miss Annie Bryson, Chairman. 

Mrs. Jennie C. McAnulty. Mrs. David S. Francis. 

" Hubert P. Wiggins. " Andrew Brockie. 

♦' Charles Goeddel. Miss Ethel McCaslin. 

" William M. Wilson. " May Stark. 

Miss Smrcek and Miss Holt. 

Mrs. Bernard H. Blazier, Chairman. 
Mrs. David F. Bair. Miss Ella Hillman. 

" A. B. Crouch. Mrs. Charles E. Elrick. 

" W. H. Langham. Miss Annetta G. Stroud. 

" James Hillman. " Rose Patterson. 

Miss Elizabeth McVay. 

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Mrs. George C. Barnes, Chairman. 

Mrs. W. W. McLaughlin. Mrs. Adam Brockie, Jr. 

" James H. Grose. " Jacob Pfirrmann. 

" Adam Brockie, Sr. " Gotleib Kinley. 

" F. A. Cummins. " W. S. Cunningham, 

Miss Hillman. " Patrick MuUin. 



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